Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
MICHELLE OBAMAFor me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it.
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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.
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Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
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The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
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